Dear Community,
We are pleased to continue the dialogue around cultivating local money here in Southern Oregon through alternative exchange methods like complementary currency and locally-focused investing. This is the second event following our trip to Seattle to attend the unMoney Convergence (unmoney.wik.is/)
The event is scheduled for
Saturday, June 14
1:30-4:30 pm
at the Bellview Grange
1050 Tolman Creek Rd.,
near Siskiyou Blvd. (next to Bellview Elementary School)
Come for part or all of the afternoon.
We will host an interactive "World Café" style discussion to gather the wisdom, interest, enthusiasm and curiosity in our community. World Café is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future (www.theworldcafe.com).
We are creating space for a focused collective intelligence to emerge and develop trading systems for our area that build resilience. If you would like to be part of this ongoing conversation, join The Rogue Exchange Google Group at:
groups.google.com/group/the...e-exchange
In prosperity and peace,
Crystal Arnold, Kirsten Liegmann, & Chris Byrne
~~~
Who we are: We have been collaborating as a team over the last year, drawn together by our common passion for sustainability, local resilience, and a thriving community life. During this time we have 'invested' extensively in building our collaborative resonant field and capturing and organizing our multifaceted collective knowledge. In developing our strategy and framework for the design and implementation of resilient systems for organizations and communities, we have come to realize the foundational nature that money (or any means of exchange) plays in any of the systems we were looking at. As such we have chosen our initial focus as a group to be on the realm of complementary currency, and the challenges and opportunities of designing and implementing this type of social technology.
Kirsten Liegmann, MBA in Sustainable Management, (2006) Presidio School of Management. Doctoral candidate for Relocalization & Resilient Systems Design - Gaia University. Registrar & Director of Operations for Gaia University. Business consultant, coach, and student advisor. Former president/CEO of Soma Ergonomics, Inc., a company she cofounded in 1994. Through the mentorship of people such as Bernard Lietaer (lietaer.com) and Hunter Lovins (hunterlovins.com), she has developed a deep understanding of and commitment to sustainability, systems design, and localization as a resilience strategy. A resident of Ashland since 2003, Kirsten wants to assist this richly diverse region to gain resilience and thrive economically, ecologically, and socially.
Chris Byrne, MBA, in Sustainable Enterprise, (2005) from New College of California, and advanced certification in Permaculture from the Cascadia Permaculture Institute. His professional work is as an Integral Sustainability Consultant, where he guides businesses and organizations in translating green ideas into products and services, and green ideals into action. His community focus is as a Re-localization Advocate and Petroleum Transition Strategist. Chris has lived in Ashland with his partner and daughter since 2005. byrnegreen.com
Crystal Arnold, BS in International Economics, (2007) Southern Oregon University. Crystal has been actively engaged in the re-localization movement in the Rogue Valley since moving here in 2005. She is a business consultant for several companies in Williams, where she is currently living. She believes money, our relationship to it, and our design of it are an essential part of building a thriving region.
We are pleased to continue the dialogue around cultivating local money here in Southern Oregon through alternative exchange methods like complementary currency and locally-focused investing. This is the second event following our trip to Seattle to attend the unMoney Convergence (unmoney.wik.is/)
The event is scheduled for
Saturday, June 14
1:30-4:30 pm
at the Bellview Grange
1050 Tolman Creek Rd.,
near Siskiyou Blvd. (next to Bellview Elementary School)
Come for part or all of the afternoon.
We will host an interactive "World Café" style discussion to gather the wisdom, interest, enthusiasm and curiosity in our community. World Café is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future (www.theworldcafe.com).
We are creating space for a focused collective intelligence to emerge and develop trading systems for our area that build resilience. If you would like to be part of this ongoing conversation, join The Rogue Exchange Google Group at:
groups.google.com/group/the...e-exchange
In prosperity and peace,
Crystal Arnold, Kirsten Liegmann, & Chris Byrne
~~~
Who we are: We have been collaborating as a team over the last year, drawn together by our common passion for sustainability, local resilience, and a thriving community life. During this time we have 'invested' extensively in building our collaborative resonant field and capturing and organizing our multifaceted collective knowledge. In developing our strategy and framework for the design and implementation of resilient systems for organizations and communities, we have come to realize the foundational nature that money (or any means of exchange) plays in any of the systems we were looking at. As such we have chosen our initial focus as a group to be on the realm of complementary currency, and the challenges and opportunities of designing and implementing this type of social technology.
Kirsten Liegmann, MBA in Sustainable Management, (2006) Presidio School of Management. Doctoral candidate for Relocalization & Resilient Systems Design - Gaia University. Registrar & Director of Operations for Gaia University. Business consultant, coach, and student advisor. Former president/CEO of Soma Ergonomics, Inc., a company she cofounded in 1994. Through the mentorship of people such as Bernard Lietaer (lietaer.com) and Hunter Lovins (hunterlovins.com), she has developed a deep understanding of and commitment to sustainability, systems design, and localization as a resilience strategy. A resident of Ashland since 2003, Kirsten wants to assist this richly diverse region to gain resilience and thrive economically, ecologically, and socially.
Chris Byrne, MBA, in Sustainable Enterprise, (2005) from New College of California, and advanced certification in Permaculture from the Cascadia Permaculture Institute. His professional work is as an Integral Sustainability Consultant, where he guides businesses and organizations in translating green ideas into products and services, and green ideals into action. His community focus is as a Re-localization Advocate and Petroleum Transition Strategist. Chris has lived in Ashland with his partner and daughter since 2005. byrnegreen.com
Crystal Arnold, BS in International Economics, (2007) Southern Oregon University. Crystal has been actively engaged in the re-localization movement in the Rogue Valley since moving here in 2005. She is a business consultant for several companies in Williams, where she is currently living. She believes money, our relationship to it, and our design of it are an essential part of building a thriving region.
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